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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider why none of you speaks to anyone who supports Trump. Perhaps you should expand your tolerance muscle and avoid calling people idiots. [/quote]

I posted above about spending time in Western PA and I think you are half right.

Where you are wrong is thinking there is value in trying to talk to hard-core Trump supporters -- the kind who put up signs in their yard and attend rallies and openly advocate for him. His base is VERY ugly to people on the other side of the political spectrum and this is just an exercise in fultility. I've done it but it doesn't matter and I won't do it anymore. They think *I* am stupid for disliking anything Trump does -- his actions on J6, is mishandling of Covid, his ugly rhetoric, his constant need for attention and drama. Like without even getting into policy, Trump's core supporters think I'm dumb for even caring about those things. A fair number of them also dislike me on principle because I'm a woman, I have a graduate degree, I had my kid late in life, and I choose to live in a city (largely for economic reasons but they don't care about that).

But where you are right is that there are a lot of people who voted for Trump who are not really Trump fans. Many held their nose to do it. But they are very frustrated with the state of the country and have not heard answers to valid questions from Democrats and have even been gaslit by many Democrats on issues like how they feel about the economy (telling someone who worries about money all the time that the GDP is high and the stock market is doing really well is obnoxious and tone deaf) and issues like crime and immigration (people have eyes, they understand things are different than they used to be, and Dems like to pretend they aren't -- that helps no one). I do think this eleciton result shows how Democrats neglected to engage independent voters who don't really align with either party (even those who register with one or the other) and who tune into elections late looking for solutions to their real problems and don't want to be told "actually you don't have any problems, everything is great -- just vote for us again." Everyone knows that not how most Americans feel and it's on Democrats for not having a good answer for those voters.[/quote]

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